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Windows 7 is less secure than Windows Vista

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worker201:
The obsession with backwards compatibility has been Microsoft's biggest burden all along.  They've built their whole business on convincing customers to "buy again".  Which forces them to kludge like crazy, which in turn leaves all these security holes wide open.  And, it can be argued that this business model has actually discouraged innovation - if software written in 1992 will work on an operating system from 2009, what's the point of improving the software?  Unfortunately, Microsoft has painted themselves into a corner - they can't redesign their business model now, and they can't just dump support for antique enterprise and mission critical software just to protect granny from wormbots.  So they'll continue to write kludges and hope that people keep forking over money for increasingly powerful hardware.  Except the new netbooks are fucking that up too.  Yes, Microsoft is doomed - it's just a matter of time.

Aloone_Jonez:
I agree, Microsoft's greatest competition is their old software.

I'm still using XP and I don't see any reason to change.

I use it under a restricted account which prevents most malware from installing, believe me I've tried installing some before and it refused to work. ;D

No doubt the article just refers to Windows 7 under its default configuration and can be locked down if needs be.

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